rev:text
| - Bolders is a fine place to go climbing with interesting routes, but has a few drawbacks. First, which other reviewers have mentioned, is the air quality. It is pretty chalky/stinky, and the place would benefit from better cleaning and a better air purification system. Second (and this may just have been the time I visited, as others have commented on the great staff), the gentleman who gave us our tour/first-timer class was awesome, but the other two people working that night seemed to spend the entire night at the front desk looking at their phones, even leaving customers waiting as they were sitting there. It was very unprofessional. Finally, while they have a system to clip in to the walls for beginning climbers, they do not have an auto-belay system. If you're a family visiting with children (as we were), this means that the adults will spend most of their time belaying for the kids, and will not get much time to climb themselves. Personally, I'd rather make the drive to one of the other climbing gyms outside of our area that have auto-belays, allowing the parents to climb once they see that the children are safely clipped in.
|